Avocadoes and Elphs

Ok I've been receiving a lot of mail and msn msg's that I haven't been updating my blog. I've also received mail by courier, express post, post cards from people asking me why haven't I updated my blog. And the other night, really late I could have sworn I saw an ad on tv that said...wait a minuted couldn't have been. Ok most of that isn't true...

Back to Peru. In this edition we'll see how I lost my second digital camera in so many years. It was a beautiful day in Ica, the city where my fathers family is from about 200km from Lima which means about 4-5 hours away. I was working in my uncles pizzaria when I found out that my friends boyfriend worked on a farm that exported avocados to europe. I thought that was pretty cool so I asked him if he could bring me one to try it out. The avocados in Peru are very different from the ones here in North America, much bigger and many different kinds, I think they are tastier too.

The following sunday he came back with a whole box of them, 12 massive avocados. Now I wasn't expecting one shy of a bakers dozen of avocadoes, but thats cool I can feast on them, maybe something to add to the pizza. So its the end of the night and I walk over to my other uncles store and put the avocadoes behind the counter trying not to forget to bring them home.

Since they are in this little box I say hmm I don't have to carry all this other stuff I'll just put them in the box, I put my digital camera (canon digital elph s400), case for my sunglasses (just the case!), and a bunch of other random things I was collecting like a squirrel. We get outside, box in hand, and get some taxis, I ofcourse forget something inside leave the box go in and grab it and then jump into a taxi... 20 minutes later I remember I forgot the box, go back to the scene of the crime and its not there. Well, the empty box was there somebody was kind enough to put it in the trash, but everything else was stolen, even the AVOCADOES.

Probably the dumbest thing I did in Peru, that plus forgetting my debit card in an ATM in Cuzco and making out with a llama after too many pisco sours...

Eating at Embarcadero 41 (thanks N), its cerveza and pulpo (bbq octopus, very good) 

The whole gang in Ica in my uncles store, there's pocha, jose luis, fernando, beatriz, carlos, ytala, nelly, domenica, andres and of course pepe 

Martin his gf and Evan, a couple crazy characters 

With my uncle and Fernando at ferns birthday 

Referee needed protection from the crowd after disallowing a Peruvian goal... 

Free kick Peru... 

With my cousin Fernando at the game 

Peru v. Uruguay 

Hanging out with th guards outside of the National stadium 

I'm what??? I'm BACK!!

Ok so I have been off the whole blogging scene for the last 1.75 months, I didn't have time to update the blog while I was on vacation (thats right vacation...), so that means a lot of pictures and blogs of my wacky experiences and crazy antics are about to come...cough cough...at least the pictures will be cool.

Its going to take some time to get the pics up because my digital camera was misplaced during the trip... I have about 5 rolls of disposible camera pics that I need to scan. I went to Peru for about 5 weeks. This time though I tried to go more as a tourist, so I could see a lot of the things that define its culture, helps you understand why the people are like they are today, the rich history, and plus bus loads of touristas from sweden...

Ok here are some pics...